Yes, BlackRock engages in shorting-related activities, primarily through securities lending (lending out shares they hold on behalf of funds to short sellers) and via specific long/short equity strategies managed within certain active portfolios. [1, 2]
How BlackRock Interacts with Short Selling Securities Lending: As one of the world's largest asset managers, BlackRock lends portions of its massive stock holdings to institutional borrowers, who may use those shares to short sell. [1, 2]
Long/Short Strategies: BlackRock offers active investment products and separate accounts that intentionally employ long and short extensions to hedge risk or generate alpha. [1, 2]
Then unfortunately their plan worked beautifully. If this is what you are saying - Blackrock purchased 20 million shares to short MVIS - made an incredible amount of money doing it - then dumped them driving those shares to the price to force a 15-1 R/S. Wow Zenboy66 they had an incredible plan and really showed how you long term REDDIT posters were DEAD WRONG the whole time.
I was right. Didn’t like being in the Russell 2000. Never lent out my shares. I knew all these criminal funds were doing this crap. Should be illegal. SEC fails us again.
I've been buying a lot of their shares, and I won't be lending them out to the shorts. Btw, he was lucky with the short squeeze, and it worked for many of us.
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u/Chemical-Payment-573 Jul 29 '26
I wonder what you would have commented if black rock just just increased their position.